We are a people of story. It is in stories that we remember the past. It is in stories that we give meaning to the past and the present. And so this week we have stories. One will be the Christmas story as told by the Donkey. And then, where we might normally put a sermon, we will be visited by Joseph and he will share his memories of the birth of Jesus. A flight of fiction and fancy perhaps. But we are inheritors of a tradition called midrash where new stories are spun off of old stories to explore questions raised but not answered by the original. And who knows where the new stories might take us....

This Sunday afternoon at 3pm we will remember life in a Blue Christmas Service, jointly offered by St. Paul's United and Clairmont United.